General knowledge is the backbone of every great pub quiz — the round where every player on your team can contribute. We've put together 50 carefully chosen questions spanning geography, history, science, pop culture, and everyday facts, organized from warm-up easy to genuine expert-level. Work through them before your next trivia night and find out fast who your team's ace really is.
Warm-up questions everyone on the team should know.
Paris
Six
The Pacific Ocean
Mars
Carbon dioxide (CO₂)
Japan (Tokyo)
Eleven
Au
Leonardo da Vinci
Australia
Solid pub-quiz territory — most teams will split on these.
1989
206
Jordan
The Amazon River
Hydrogen
1912
Yen
George Orwell
300,000 kilometers per second (about 186,000 miles per second)
Alaska
These separate the trivia veterans from the weekend warriors.
Olympus Mons
2007
AB negative (AB-)
Italy (as of 2024, with 59 sites)
The Thirty Years' War
Sublimation
Marie Curie (1903, Physics)
Mandarin Chinese
It was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in Switzerland — the UK is typically credited
Astana (formerly known as Nur-Sultan)
If your team gets more than five, you're the real deal.
Vexillology
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
Oligopoly
Azerbaijan
Giuseppe Verdi
Approximately 5,730 years
Ulysses S. Grant
Lake Baikal (Russia)
A perfect number (e.g., 6 = 1+2+3)
The Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea
Fast-fire questions — first answer wins. No hesitation allowed.
32
Bats
Italy
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Bravo
18
Diamond
The Atlantic Ocean
1945
Giraffe
Tally your correct answers and find your team's level below.
Remarkable. Your team should be playing professionally.
You know your stuff. Consistently top-three at the bar.
Mid-table — competitive with focused prep.
Some gaps to fill. Pick your weakest round and drill it.
Keep practicing — every great team started somewhere.
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